After Aston Martin made a surprising start to the season with the second-best car on the starting grid, they were overtaken by McLaren, Mercedes and Ferrari in the development race. Improvements introduced across the course did not yield the desired results and the evolutions presented in the US a few weeks ago, which had hoped to turn things around, appeared to have failed. Fernando was struggling in America and Mexico, and the team decided to compare the new package with the previous one to find an answer. and, sao paulosimilar layout by combination of curves Zandvoortwhere alonso Until yesterday we had the last podium, but the car was on track again with a hybrid of parts from both packages.

There are many reasons to move forward. Perhaps it’s purely a truck type issue.but alonso In the last two races, this car McLaren, Mercedes, Ferrari.

“Can we continue as is?” I think so. It’s certainly closer than Mexico, at least. I think there are a few points that we have understood within the team and the direction we should take. We had high hopes for this race and it proved to be the right direction. And the last one, why not try to be competitive with two? I don’t know if it’s podium level or not.”he commented, emphasizing that multiple factors were consistent with yesterday’s withdrawal. “There was Charles, who withdrew during the formation lap of the race.” Mercedes did not perform as expected and the “Czech” was lagging behind, but there were several factors that allowed them to get on the podium. But we want to be in the fight and it will be a good spot for us.”Fernando made a surprising statement on “DAZN F1”: “I thought I could easily get on the podium until the last five laps, but everything went wrong in the end.”

Regarding this match, the Oviedo native said in a press conference that he considered it more difficult than his legendary defense against Michael Schumacher at Imola in 2005, because in this match DRS and tire management were everything. Because I changed it. Before answering, he looked at Norris and asked him how old he was at the time. “5 years”Rand answered.

“It was easier in 2005 because we didn’t have DRS. It was easier that way. Something is different with DRS and you have to play differently. Tire management is much different than before, and you can now start your entire race with your tires. Indeed, in 2005, once you lost a position, you couldn’t get it back. But here we did it. DRS was introduced to improve sight. Today is a great example of that. They pass you with two laps left. Please try it too. If they pass you in Turn 1, there’s a good chance they’ll pass you in Turn 4. “That’s why we see a beautiful battle here,” he said.

“I told Czech not to put that pressure on me again. I’m old enough.”“DAZN F1,” he added with a laugh, optimistically describing the team’s reaction after admitting how difficult the last race was.

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“I’ve been losing benefits for the last few months, especially the last two weeks. In Austin, we started in the pit lane for all of our experiments… In Mexico, even the ninth or 10th team was pretty slow. All of this was putting pressure on the whole team. But we remained calm. ”He commented on the team’s suffering at the last Grand Prix.

“It was also good to see from the outside that the team never lost focus, remained very focused and tried to analyze what was happening to them down to the smallest detail. And very united. “I think it’s… team unity. It’s hard to go through that in difficult moments because it’s always easy to blame each other, but the team remains at its best. They keep going. So I’m happy about that. This podium is for them too.” And now you go into Las Vegas and Abu Dhabi with a different mentality, because I was a little worried about the last race. ”